Found a Brut "Aquatonic" deodorant "stick" in my DH's washbag

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For those born after 1976 this is deodorant that looks like a big white lipstick, and "Brut" is cheap pongy aftershave worn by men with perms and Peter Sutcliffe. "Aquatonic" was it's modern racing driver fresh Magnum PI cousin.

So..given these were actually made illegal by Margaret Thatcher in 1981 as they caused riots and brought about the New Romantics and flicky hair for all AIBU to ask my DH to remove it and buy a new one for his holidays?

There was also Jontue, and dies anyone else remember Fiji (or did I imagine that one)?

Yes, I think Aramis was one of the most popular in the "generation" of scents which cane later and followed Brut and all the other lovely (?) smells of the late 70s

Kevin Keegan's perm in the advert anyone?

And which Jilly book's cover was essentially the "Denim" advert?

I remember wearing Body Shop vanilla and dewberry...

I have recently started wearing Obsession again. Now I have learned how to moderate, it smells luvverly.

They're advertising Van Halen reforming. Anyone else have that late 70s/early 80s poster of Dave Lee Roth up against a chain link fence?

Oh I remember Fiji - it was positively the heights of sophistication back in the day! Which doesn't say much for the day really does it!

If you miss the 80s scents and want to treat your gawjuss hubby this Valentine's Day, Lidl do a lovely male scent called 'Eruption'. £2.99.

He is gas lighting you OP. Trying to convince you you're going mad by making you think it's the 80s. Leave the bastard. Or get yourself a bottle of exclamation and confuse him right back.

I only learned to scrunch dry my hair about 10 years ago. How different my life would have been if I'd known how to do it in the 80's.

sparklingbrook I still have some rive gauche and giorgio at the back of my wardrobe that I occasionally smell when I'm feeling old nostalgic

Oh thought of another one - red door.

'Things happen after a Badedas Bath'

Never did for me

Oh I had scrunch dried very big hair! It was rock solid with all the product keeping it in place!

lovecat Jazz is what my dp wears - because he inherited an unused bottle of it from his grandfather

oh I'm glad it's not just me at remembers Fiji!

Scrunch drying was a much later thing - big from about the mid-80s.

In the Brut era, it was the men with that hair! (I've already mentioned Kevin). It was all Charlie's Angels and flick ups for the women. Elnett still going strong!

But has anyone else of the late 70s been watching the 1977 repeats of TOTP that are being shown the dry week on BBC4? Some of the hairdos on that were quite scary...

Anais anais and Loulou were quite popular IIRC.

dewberry although was the boots spray that I got! but my all time favourite "expensive" perfume was exclamation! boke!

It by Lentheric is the smell of my early teens. The loos at the village hall disco reeked of the stuff. Magical :)

Lentheric!!!!

How could I have forgotten that!

Also neat patchouli oil was (just) still hanging around - particularly on young grebos.

Hey! I still love Paris! but my dh comes over all frugal when buying me perfume and keeps on giving me bloody JLo!!!
BTW what is an "in " scent now.
I am just waiting for huge scrunch dried and teased and permed hairdos to come back. Big and messy I can do but I am crap with a straightener and my hair just laughs at "sleek".

I have the Katy Perry perfume now because the bottle is in the shape of a cat, I hadn't even smelt it. and I also own a bottle of 'Suddenly Madame Glamour' from Lidl which is lovely. Ghost for special occasions.

A friend of mine bought me the entire Charlie range back in about 1983.

I'm trying to remember the lipstick we wore. It was Boots 7 or 17, pinky-purple and shimmery. I think it had the word Shimmer in it. It was very mid-80's and I loved it.
I should go look in Boots, it's probably back "in".

Oh, nearly lynched a man in the canteen at work the other who was wearing Versace Blue Jeans, the scent of my first love. I just shuffled in behind him as close as I could get away with soaking up the intoxicating smell of teenage lust.

body shop Dewberry white musk is for old ladies

or boots used to do a range of 'naturals' and they used to do a pump action deoderant -school changing rooms used to stink of a variety of fruits as we weren't allowed to use areosols!

GiserableMitt, might it have been heather shimmer, boots 17, also was fond of one called pink ginger.

Lynx was the smell of my teenage years after pe the lovely boys would all share a can between them, that and the scent of body shop jojoba shampoo and conditioner as used by every girl sat in upper school assembly

Jazz was the sexiest smell in the world! Think I may get a bottle!

Jovan Musk for men. That was my cherry popper. I love that smell, very happy memory associations.

Dad wore Aramis-so def not a sexy smell for me!

I reeked of Dewberry for a while, also Poison which was very 'reeky' think it would choke me if I smelled it now.

Exclamation! Make a statement, without saying a word!!!!